Resisting God Quotes

#1. When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in God's presence; it is that I have failed by seeking pleasure through godless ways or by resisting God's provision for me because it is not what I want.

Ravi Zacharias

#2. We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Charles Stanley

#3. Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad ...

Ibn Ata Allah

#4. You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

Garry Marshall

#5. In other words, more than seventy per cent of American divorces are granted because husbands and wives can not adapt themselves to each other in the matter of how they shall spend their LEISURE hours.

Elsie Lincoln Benedict

#6. Fighting and resisting the timing of God is equivalent to fighting and resisting His will for our lives. God is working, often in ways we cannot see, to bring His plans to pass in our lives in the best possible ways. We simply need to trust Him as we wait for the arrival of our dreams.

Joyce Meyer

#7. Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.

Carlson Gracie

#8. The people who talk behind your back are destined to stay there.

Elizabeth Rudnick

#9. Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.

Thomas Ligotti

#10. God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.

Francois Fenelon

#11. I always said I acted like a twelve-year old, so I decided to write like a twelve-year old.

Terri Bertha

#12. What I've written here is a message to myself. I toss it into the air
like a boomerang. It slices through the dark, lays the little soul of
some poor kangaroo out cold, and finally comes back to me.
But the boomerang that returns is not the same one I threw.
Boomerang, boomerang.

Haruki Murakami

#13. Resisting tyranny is obeying God

Thomas Jefferson

#14. In battle nothing is ever as good or as bad as the first reports of excited men would have it.

William Slim

#15. When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing.

Joyce Meyer

#16. God, do I love this man. The way he touches me, the way he kisses me. The cuts of his body and the intensity of his eyes. He is a drug that I have no way of resisting, bad for my soul, but so heartbreakingly perfect in its deliverance.

Alessandra Torre

#17. Ethan possessed a skill set that combined hot, bad-boy sex god with mannerly, romantic gentleman; something so rare and captivating, I didn't have a chance at resisting the pull.

Raine Miller

#18. God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

William Penn